Find Out What the June 2025 Peachtree Village HOA "News" Letter is Really Saying

A Neighborhood Made Up of All Different Types of People and Families Is What the HOA and Its Few Supporters Are So Fearful Of!

As our Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union is working very hard to hold the HOA accountable for their many misdeeds, some of which are violations of State and Federal laws, it's very important to bear in mind the fundamental problem for which HOAs in general and Peachtree Village HOA in particular, were created in the first place--BIGOTRY!

Bigotry is defined as stubborn and complete intolerance of people who differ from one's own. The specific type of "others" which bigots cannot tolerate can vary. Their intolerance can be directed at people of a different race or ethnic group. It can be people who have another religion or sexual orientation. It can people who hold a different political view. It can be directed against different family types-- a single woman with young children, a person who is mentally-challenged, or just anyone who is not perceived as "us."

When construction of the small community of homes we now call Peachtree Village was first proposed back in 1984, many people in the surrounding, almost all-white neighborhoods were very upset that, because the houses would be smaller and less expensive, they were terrified that "others" would move in, and bring "ruin" to their neighborhoods. In their bigoted minds, the reason people were poor had to do with who they were, not because they had been systematically prevented from prospering by job discrimination and the many obstacles that prevented them from successfully running their own businesses. Consequently, when they got wind of some affordable housing going up right next to them, they heard "cheap houses that will attract the type of people who will tear them up and create a dangerous ghetto." And their unfounded fears were very specific!

For example, they imagined "those people" to be so backward and ignorant, they wouldn't even know how to use and electric oven and stove, but would instead use the wood-burning fire places to cook over, which would make Peachtree Village houses very susceptible to fires breaking out. It's not some coincidence that, when these bigots couldn't stop the construction of our community, they insisted every house have a sprinkler system installed (though Fox and Jacobs, like they did with everything else, used the cheapest, lowest-quality materials as they could find).

It was this bigotry which led to the insistence Peachtree Village have an HOA that would have extraordinary powers to force the residents to conform to a rigid set of 100s, if not 1000s, of maintenance and decoration rules. In other words, if they couldn't keep those "others" from moving in, at least they would be FORCED to "take good care of the houses they occupied."

Ironically, not that many "others" bought homes in Peachtree Village back in 1985. The purchasers were, mostly, just like the whites in the surrounding neighborhoods, just people who didn't need a larger and more expensive home.

But among them, and as is the case in virtually every neighborhood under the dictatorship of an HOA, it did attract a number of the type of people who have a deep-down need to CONTROL others! In general, they're known as "controllers," which Psychological experts have specifically identified as a mental disorder (Check out this article and see if you have noticed these controlling behaviors from among the HOA Board members and their supporters--https://psychcentral.com/pro/exhausted-woman/2016/01/30-different-types-of-controlling-people#1).

In recent years, though, Peachtree Village has actually become more diverse. Whites make up only about 1/3 of our community. The rest are Latinos, Asians, blacks and some of Middle Eastern or African descent. So, of course, those who have never learned how to get over their bigotry are utterly terrified and feeling very strongly that, unless they use every possible means of frightening those "others" into submission, the neighborhood is bound to turn into a crime-filled "ghetto"!

This explains why the previous "Board" and a dozen or so of their bigoted supporters went into a panic when some of us who have our heads on straight began to oppose their efforts to rob us of our home sovereignty, ultimately leading to the formation of the Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union. To accomplish their ends, they resorted to all sorts of deception--they lied, they exaggerated and they did all they could to tap into the fears which, everyone has, along with all sorts of threats against the majority of our neighbors in order to cower them into silence.

Trouble is, lying only works for a short while. It takes an increasing amount of effort to lie, more lies to cover up the first one, and exponentially more lies after that! Also, menacing people into silence only breeds anger and frustration. The more the HOA does this, the greater that anger and frustration will grow. Sooner or later, the HOA's abuse of power will be overthrown, and we here at the Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union want to see their demise come about in a peaceful and legal way, though our commitment to peace and lawful behavior should not in any way be mistaken as a sort of "weakness." No, as a wise person once said, it's the "peacemakers who will inherit the earth," so we look forward to the day, in the not too distant future, when EVERYONE who is a part of the Peachtree Village community will truly inherit their HOMES, and no longer will anyone else rule over them as some sort of oligarchy!

While we'll do all we can to help these sad controllers realize their fear is nothing more than a problem INSIDE THEIR MINDS, even if they never get over their bigotry, we will do everything we need to, making use of every legal means available, to wrestle back our home sovereignty, and by "our," we mean EVERYONE who lives in or is the non-resident owner of a home in Peachtree Village! We've already made some progress and, while there's still a long way to go, we're more determined than ever before to make Peachtree Village a happy community of all sorts of people who know they have a real HOME here, in an ACCEPTING and TOLERANT and THRIVING community.

When the HOA THREATENS Someone, the Real Solution Is NOT Simply to Delay Punishment, But To Stop Making the Threats in the First Place!

Last Wednesday evening, on June 18, 2025, our Union managed to extract a few concessions from the Peachtree Village HOA Board, and while we had hoped to convince the Board to make a LOT more positive changes, any progress is better than none at all or, worse, if the Board were to start doing even worse things. One of those small, positive changes was to, FINALLY, get the Board to accept some form of the concept they should be helping people instead of hurting them! For most people, this moral precept is obvious, but for HOAs, organizations specifically designed to hurt people or threaten to hurt people, it's completely foreign to them! Worse, their Boards are often made up of people who, somehow, convince themselves hurting people is a good thing!

Up until last Wednesday, previous Peachtree Village "Boards" had been completely callous and not giving a single iota of concern for how their actions hurt people. For example, with an increasing number of residents in our community who are elderly, struggling with chronic health issues, and watching their savings disappear and their Social Security checks under threat...and are no longer to get by financially as a result, the HOA had no problem whatsoever sending a spy car to invade their privacy, take photos and accuse them of all sorts of "violations," followed by threatening letters that if they didn't fix this or change that, they would be punished with fines of up to $500.00! The HOA was OBLIVIOUS to the moral insanity of attacking people who, through no fault of their own, are having trouble keeping up with their home maintenance and making it even WORSE, by threatening (an in more than a few cases, actually following through with issuing fines) placing a LOT of our neighbors in even worse financial trouble!

For this reason, our Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union (and the Interim Board before that) has been vigorously telling the HOA they need to STOP the invasive spying and stalking which is emotionally abusive in and of itself, to STOP making threats to hurt people financially, STOP actually hurting people financially and START helping people instead!

Well, on June 18, 2025, we learned the HOA plans to continue with the invasive spying/stalking, and are either oblivious to the emotional abuse it causes or, worse, actually like the idea they are emotionally abusing people into submission! And further, they want to continue using OUR money to pay for sending threatening letters, even to our increasing number of elderly, chronically ill and financially struggling residents!!! However, they are now willing to delay their attempts to punish our neighbors IF SOMEONE ELSE will do the work and spend the money to fix whatever the maintenance problem is...but NOT the HOA!

In other words, while we are glad the HOA is going to give our neighbors a little bit more time before they lower the boom on them for maintenance problems they can no longer keep up with, that's hardly the full extent of what they should be doing! Instead, if the HOA wants to send people to go around our neighborhood to look at our homes and surrounding properties, why not do so for the express purpose of seeing who needs help, and don't make any threats in the first place!

So, while it's great that we have neighbors who are willing to be helpful to others, especially to our elderly, ill and financially struggling, the reason for doing so should NOT be to shield them from emotional and financial abuse from the HOA!

Everyone in our community should be able to live in their own home, free from any threats, free from emotional and financial abuse, and how nice it would be if what made Peachtree Village the envy of Plano, is that we could count on the care and concern of our neighbors to help out those who have done all they can to help themselves, but it's no longer enough! This is a very achievable goal! But what we don't need and what is so insidious, is an HOA that uses threats against people, as their first step, and then sits back and pats itself on the back whenever some poor, chronically-ill widow is forced to sacrifice her last ounce of dignity, and beg them for mercy, and the mercy they extend is only by having someone else do what she can't, while the HOA, themselves, STILL does nothing!

Now, just in case someone is thinking the HOA is not in a financial position to help instead of hurting, let's consider how much they've been WASTING and MISAPPROPRIATING! Just in the last 2 months, the HOA has spent over $15,000.00 to pay legal fees to try to keep some current and former Board members out of trouble with the LAW! (To be sure, they probably do need legal help, but WE should not be paying for it! That should come out of THEIR pockets, not OURS!) The HOA has been and, now, plans to keep on using OUR money to pay a FOR PROFIT company to do nothing more than harass and invade our privacy! Last year, they spent $7,000.00 to pay Goodwin & Co. when they could have switched to self-management and, at the most, paid $20 a month for an accounting app to keep track of dues payments! Then there's the over-priced landscaping cost of nearly $30,000.00 and, on top of that, the Board announced last Wednesday, they are going to begin, again, spraying drinking water on the greenbelt's crabgrass, most of which will evaporate or leak out of our 41 year old irrigation system that has already outlived its lifetime for the way it was so cheaply constructed!

If, instead, the HOA were to agree to the 12 Much-Needed Changes our Union has presented to them, it would only take a small portion of the TENs of THOUSANDS of OUR dollars they are not, still, wasting and misappropriating, to help out any and all of our neighbors who can no longer keep with with maintenance repairs. Of course, many of us will just step in and help our struggling neighbors out of human compassion and neighborliness, but it should only be because they just need help with THEIR HOME, NOT because the HOA wants to on doing everything they can to take away our home sovereignty!

The First Peachtree Village HOA New Board Meeting Was Very Disappointing, But Our Union Did Win Some Concessions!

On June 18, 2025, the 2/5, newly-elected Peachtree Village HOA Board held an open meeting and, while your Neighborhood Union was there to advocate for the PEOPLE of our community, after sending copies of the 12 Much-Needed Changes to the Board in advance, we were very disappointed (though not surprised) to hear the new President say they were NOT going to meet with us to attempt forging a binding agreement in which both sides could meet each other half way for the benefit of our entire community! To be sure, getting snubbed right out of the gate was a bad way to get started...but by the end of the meeting, we were encouraged by some of the concessions we were able to obtain from the HOA!

Rick Lannoye was given about 15 minutes altogether to address the Board, which wasn't much, but better than the 5 minutes our Neighborhood group was limited to back on March 3, 2025, the last time the Old Board claimed they were holding an "Open Meeting." We had hoped to have more, direct communication with the new Board, prior to last night's meeting, but we're taking every positive change, however small, as "progress." With so little time, we had to select only a portion of the 12 Changes to present and, as best as possible, explain why they are so important.

We learned right away that our First Much-Needed Change had been flatly rejected! The Board announced they had hired another HOA management company, named "Proper," to replaced Goodwin & Co. by July 1, 2025. While we're very happy to see Goodwin, FINALLY, go away, but our Union had advocated the HOA become fully self-managed. This would have saved us a LOT of money, and could have helped our Board to focus on the REAL needs of our community--taking care of our Common Areas--instead of stalking us and threatening us with "Violation" letters and fines, just to make a handful of people feel powerful over others and to make a profit! However, we are hoping this new company will, unlike Goodwin & Co. be a little better, for example, by granting us full access to our HOA records (assuming they can obtain ALL of them from Goodwin) and will be civil toward our members by receiving any one of us who wishes to talk to them at their office in Richardson, Texas, something Goodwin, with their doors always locked, refused to do.

By the way, the position of our Union is that we should NEVER have to pay one penny more than what our founding DCCR documents, in ARTICLE V, Section 3., (a), declare as the maximum annual dues, which is $480.00, not without a 67% or more approval of our members. Many of us recall how, when the 2021 "Board" hired Goodwin & Co., they immediately began pushing our members to sign up for electronic payments for which they charged an extra fee, and having "lost" a LOT of the records from the previous HOA management company, which would have shown homeowners had been paying their $40.00 every month, on time, Goodwin & Co. wasted no time before they began to send many homeowners accusatory letters, for which they charged an extra $25.00 each, saying they had better pay (again) for falsely-alleged, "missing months," and threatened to charge more late fees on top of that if they didn't do so by a certain date!

And let's not forget that it was just a few days ago when our new Board announced Goodwin & Co. had decided to no longer contract with Peachtree Village HOA, when they stated in their Minutes (from their executive meeting on 5-28-2025), "This was a real disappointment"! So, we can only hope that, no longer having an HOA company like Goodwin & Co., one that was singularly focused on making as much of a profit off of Peachtree Village homeowners as they could get away with, this Proper HOA management company will not engage in the same sort of financially abusive practices which, apparently, will be very disappointing to the new Board!

Regardless, our Union will continue to oppose any attempt by the HOA or Proper to profit at our homeowners' expense, which is illegal, given that Peachtree Village HOA is a NON PROFIT corporation! No extra charges should ever be added to the maximum of $40.00 per month ($480.00 per year) which the vast majority of us pay on time, or even early! In fact, we will be advocating that if anyone wants to (or already has already) paid one or more months ahead of time, they should get a discount (like $5.00 less for every month paid ahead of time)!

Time will tell, for example, if Proper HOA Management will respect our Members unequivocal right to inspect any of our HOA documents at any normal business hour, either for no cost at all or for a very nominal one at the most (a minor fee of $10.00 is the normal standard charge for a data storage company to bring out and return documents from storage to a secured audit room, at the same premises, for direct inspection). If so, this would represent significant progress for the people of our community! We MUST be able to see, directly, what our HOA has done, and having full access to All of our HOA records would help keep out corruption, illegitimate and criminal behavior by the HOA, its directors, agents or officers.

Appallingly, according to the President, Proper will carry on with the abusive/illegal practice of stalking our homes, though it's not yet clear how and how often they will do so! Of course, our Union made it very clear we will vigorously oppose this invasive and offensive behavior. We did offer, once again, a much better alternative--After notifying all residents in advance, one person from the Board and one from our Union could walk through our community to see if anyone needs HELP with maintenance or repairs. This, the Board rejected! However, we did win another small concession when the President agreed to help people who are having trouble keeping up with their home maintenance, though we had no luck getting the Board to understand how it does little good to offer help, at the back end of one or more threatening "Violation" letters, instead of reserving threats until AFTER finding out what the circumstances are that led to the problem in the first place! The HOA should NEVER make any threats of "violation" until it's clear the homeowner is intentionally doing something seriously wrong! We reiterated how, if the real goal of these "violation" letters (as they're so fond of claiming) is to have people take better care of their homes, then why take away the one thing (making people feel like the house they occupy is NOT really THEIRS) that is more likely than anything else to inspire them to do so--respecting their home sovereignty!

We spent several minutes explaining why the Architectural Control Committee (the "ACC") is a defunct and should just be suspended. The President made some comments about "folding the ACC into the Board," though this would not be permissible, according to our founding documents which, specifically, prohibit anyone on the Board or even a family member of someone on the Board to be on the ACC! Not withstanding, a bit later, the President asked for volunteers for the committee, and Rick Lannoye offered to serve in order to curb the HOA from committing discrimination. We'll see if the Board approves of having at least one person from our Neighborhood Union on the ACC, but if they were to suspend the committee (mainly because so many people in our community have made so many changes to their properties which, in turn, serve as precedents that, should anyone want to do the same, they cannot be denied without the ACC and Board placing themselves in danger of a discrimination law suit), we could prevent discrimination from being committed in the first place!

Unfortunately, there was not enough time to discuss the formation of a neutral mediation committee, the Union's position against raising the maximum amount of our dues, the replacement of the rest of the vague and threatening parking signs, our burgeoning parking space shortage, a complete overhaul of our Board election procedures, then need to replace the super expensive crabgrass on our greenbelt with native plants that will conserve drinking water and save us $30,000. a year, and reimbursements of fines paid to Goodwin & Co.

Only briefly did we get to mention the Union's position that every homeowner who had paid out of their own pocket for repairs made to Common Areas, ought to be reimbursed, if not in lump sums, as least over time in regular monthly installments. But 2 members of the Board proceeded to regurgitate a debunked, false interpretation of the CCRs to make if seem as if it was individual homeowners' responsibility, not the HOA, to pay for repairs to our Common Areas, especially to our Common Drives (the blue sign streets).

A discussion about the potholes on our private drives followed, and it became clear the Board has either never read our HOA's founding documents or, if so, they managed to completely ignore the 6 (SIX) different places where they say, specifically, it's up to the HOA to pay for any maintenance, preservation and repairs to our Common Drives (the blue sign) streets! We attempted to explain how the 2 lines which 2 of the Board members kept referring to as the excuse for why the HOA should not have to pay to fix the potholes on our streets were only talking about CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS, not repairs! But after the meeting concluded, we were able to show one of the 2 Board members a copy of our original CCRs where the language is absolutely unequivocal about the HOA's responsibility, and he agreed to read a copy of the full analysis we did, and the rest of the Board didn't raise any vocal opposition when we promised to send them each a copy of the same.

To be sure, this meeting didn't get us anywhere near the positive results we would have liked to have seen. However, we also knew our struggle to fully restore home sovereignty to every resident and homeowner is probably going to be a long one, and the real good news here is we have only just begun to fight, using every legal means at our disposal, and we've only used a few of them thus far!

Let's Tell the HOA to Stop Taking OUR Money to Cover THEIR Tracks and Use It For OUR, Real Needs!

If you haven't ever checked to see what the Peachtree Village HOA is spending OUR money on, then please do so at your earliest opportunity. The reason is because the vast majority of OUR money which we pay in monthly dues is NOT being spent to benefit US, the people who either live in Peachtree Village, or the homeowners who are leasing out their property to 1/4 of all our neighbors, but on 1) covering their tracks for the multiple illegitimate and illegal things THEY have done, 2) on an over-priced "landscaping" company, which is doing nothing more than mowing down crabgrass which, in just another month or two, is going to turn brown in between the many, wide cracks that will be all over our greenbelt and 3) to fund a private company that is expert at monetizing bigotry to their financial advantage!

So, why is it the HOA is spending so much of our hard-earned money (to the tune of $4,275.00, just last month!) to evade taking responsibility for the bad things they've done? Well, instead of doing the work they said they wanted to do, without compensation, they are continuing to pay Goodwin & Co. to do nothing more than stalk and spy on us, in order to use FEAR to make the people in our community whom they have discriminately targeted to pay fines (which of course, Goodwin & Co. gets a large percentage of to line their pockets more than they already do), resulting in their feeling like the place they lay their heads at night is NOT their HOME!

Another large expense is the legal fees they are paying out of OUR money, to run interference for the "directors" of numerous HOA Boards of the past (4 of whom are on our current Board) so they don't have to answer (not yet anyways) for the many illegitimate and illegal things they did before! They are now obsessively preoccupied with covering their tracks, instead of working for the benefit of the people of our community! For example, they've been paying an attorney who also works for Goodwin & Co. (which is a conflict of interest) to pull every punch he can to impede access to our HOA records [which is the RIGHT of every homeowner according to our HOA's founding documents that specifically say this THREE (3) times]. Why? Well, there are probably a LOT of things they are covering up, which those records would definitively reveal, but here is just one:

It's virtually certain our HOA did not have a real, legitimately-elected Board of Directors for many years, perhaps even for decades, because the annual meetings never had the requisite quorum (the minimum number of members present to do anything legitimately or legally) to elect a Board, but they went ahead and falsely declared, year after year, a Board had been chosen! This means, every decision any of those fake Boards made was illegitimate, and if it was to spend OUR money, then it was a misappropriation of funds, which is a crime under Texas Law!

This has really bad implications for Goodwin & Co. as well, because they directly participated in many of these fake elections over the past 5 or so years, including when the very first Peachtree Village HOA "Board" hired them! To make it worse, that contract was not only an illegal one for having been signed by an illegitimately-elected Board, but since we're talking about a LOT of money here, going to a FOR PROFIT company, made all the more sketchy by using a fake name (Peachtree Village Homeowner's Association) for our HOA!

So, sure, the HOA ought to be very frightened and wondering at every turn when their past is going to catch up with them, as well as Goodwin & Co. should also be for their direct participation in misappropriating our NON-PROFIT, HOA funds, apparently, thinking it was all fine and dandy back when no one was looking!

So, what's the solution? Well, it most certainly is NOT throwing MORE of OUR good money after bad, just for the HOA to keep doing all it can to prevent the truth from landing in front of a criminal court!

Well, this is what your UNION proposes to the HOA--Come clean!!! The more the HOA tries to hide the truth, the harder and more expensive it's going to be, and not just for the all the homeowners and residents of Peachtree Village! Just admit the HOA did a lot of bad things, told a bunch of lies, and wasted so much of our money, but now, the HOA wants to be honest and use our money for our real needs, like fixing all the potholes on our streets and making amends to everyone they offended, harassed and took money from to pay for what the HOA should have.

Of course, Goodwin & Co. would not be happy about their role as an accomplice in all the Peachtree Village HOA's past wrongdoings becoming public knowledge and subjecting them to possible lawsuits and indictments.

But maybe it's not too late for them to, if not come clean, to make amends. They could return every dollar they took from us, plus interest, as part of a settlement. Then, all the money they took from us could be used to help our community to do things like, convert our greenbelt away from the unnatural crabgrass to native plants, to (as noted) fix all of our streets' potholes, to replace the remaining rail-tie retaining walls before they fall down, and to repay, with interest, all the homeowners who had been conned into paying for Common Area repairs, such as, replacing retaining walls.

Coming clean would not be easy but, in the long run, it would definitely be the best thing for the HOA to do! Maybe, all the "directors" who had a hand in these illegitimate and illegal activities could even avoid having nervous breakdowns and begin sleeping peacefully with a clean conscience, assuming of course, they haven't, as one ancient text of wisdom says, "seared their consciences as with a hot iron."

STALKING IS AGAINST THE LAW!

AND IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO OR WHY A STALKER STALKS!

IT CAN BE AN EX-BOYFRIEND OR AN HOA!

In 1993, the State of Texas passed its first anti-stalking law. Every person has a right not to be spied upon, especially in the one place where you should feel more safe than anywhere else--YOUR HOME!

If you have any doubts about whether or not an HOA agent can stalk your home, please read the following handbook published by SPARK, the Stalking Prevention, Awareness, & Resource Center: https://www.stalkingawareness.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/SPARC-Stalking-Victim-Handbook.pdf

Your Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union is committed to bringing an end to the stalking of our community's residents. Please help us help you and Law Enforcement by following the advice given by SPARK, such as, keeping a log of each and every time a spy car has pulled up to the edge of your home property to take pictures and write down anything to be used against you, and make sure to document, in detail, how it made you feel!

Don't allow anyone to convince you stalking behavior is somehow OK, just because your home is in an HOA community! Just as in the case of a sexual predator who may try to excuse his unwanted surveillance and other threatening behavior by claiming, "But she is my girlfriend," likewise, even if you had given the HOA permission to spy on you (which is the LIE they will try to use), once you make it clear they don't have your permission, any further surveillance is against the Law!

According to the Texas Penal Code, 42.072, (a), (3), (D):

“(a) A person commits an offense if the person, on more than one occasion and pursuant to the same scheme or course of conduct that is directed at a specific other person, knowingly engages in conduct that: (3) would cause a reasonable person under circumstances similar to the circumstances of the other person to: (D) feel harassed, terrified, intimidated, annoyed, alarmed, abused, tormented, embarrassed, or offended.”

Stalking, as defined above, is a serious crime in Texas. The same Texas Penal Code, 42.072, (b) states, “an offence under this section is a felony of the third degree”! That’s 2 to 10 years in prison and up to a fine of $10,000.00!

Of course, we usually tend to think of stalking only in terms of when someone becomes so obsessively attracted to someone in a sexual way, that they begin following them and spying on them without the permission of the person they’re so obsessed with. But the Law doesn’t restrict criminal stalking just to people who have some sexual obsession. It doesn’t really say anything about what the MOTIVE of the stalker is. What matters is if someone spies on you or your home, more than one time, and it results in YOU FEELING any one of the following experiences--harassed, terrified, intimidated, annoyed, alarmed, abused, tormented, embarrassed, or offended, then it’s criminal Stalking!

Not even the police are allowed to park in front of your home to spy and take pictures try to find some excuse to accuse you of an offense! In 2001, the US Supreme Court (Kyllo v. United States, 533 U.S. 27), rightfully, decided even this sort of surveillance was Unconstitutional, even if conducted from a public vantage point, like a street. In fact, the police can't even use a thermal imaging device, much less a regular camera in order to "fish" for evidence to use against you!

If you see any HOA agent, like the Goodwin & Co. spy car, stalking your home, please take pictures of them, get their license plate number, write down a description of the perpetrator, and document how YOU felt, especially, if you experienced any of the following reactions: harassment, terror, intimidation, annoyance, alarm, abuse, torment, embarrassment or offense. Then, please contact us as soon as you can at info@peachtreevillageplano.com so we can hold accountable the HOA and any HOA management company they've hired for this illegal behavior.

Don't Let HOAs Play You By Exploiting Whatever You Think is Wrong About Other Groups of People!

These Pictures Tell Us All We Need to Know About

What's Wrong With Peachtree Village HOA!

The HOA thinks this house looks terrible!

Why? Because the owner painted over the bricks with white paint, and "that's against the [41 year old] rules"!

So, the HOA uses OUR MONEY to pay a FOR PROFIT company to spy on our homes, take pictures, accuse them of a "violation" (like painting over bricks) and threaten the owner with a fine of up to $500, which Goodwin would get 1/3 of in pure profit $$$ [We'll soon see if Proper does the same thing.]

Meanwhile, on the very SAME STREET where this house is, the HOA has done NOTHING to fix these potholes with the rebar sticking out!!! You don't have to be a rocket scientist to know it's the POTHOLES that are dragging down the value our homes, NOT painted bricks!

This is just one of the many reasons why your Neighborhood Union is calling on Peachtree Village HOA to STOP giving OUR MONEY (to the tune of TENs of $1,000.00s) to greedy HOA management companies (like Goodwin & Co.)!

Let's not fall for this financial SCAM anymore! Tell Peachtree Village HOA to do what our original Articles of Incorporation say (ARTICLE THREE, Section One) was the reason for forming our HOA in the first place--NOT to make a PROFIT, but to maintain our COMMMON AREAS! The HOA must get rid of Goodwin $ Co., convert to self-management and, instead of profiting at our expense, use OUR MONEY to address the REAL NEEDS of our community and to stop monetizing the psychological problems of people who feel they need to CONTROL others!

June 9, 2025

To: The Board of Directors of Peachtree Village Homeowners Association

From: The Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union

Please read and study the following 12 Much-Needed Changes written in response to what the people of Peachtree Village (residents and non-resident homeowners alike) are demanding after many years when the Peachtree Village HOA (an organization that was formed in 1984 as a NON-PROFIT corporation) neglected its duty to maintain the Common Areas, illegally pressured homeowners to pay for repairs to common areas, illegally hired a for-profit company to exploit us financially by monetizing personal prejudices, illegally selectively enforced rules by fining only certain homeowners, illegally prevented the inspection of our HOA records, illegally misappropriated HOA funds for private and political purposes, irresponsibly wasted 100s of $1,000.00s to prop up the environmentally- and economically-unsustainable crabgrass on our greenbelt and illegally conducted stalking attacks on our residents! We, the Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union, on behalf of every human being who lives in Peachtree Village as well as the non-resident homeowners who have a direct stake in bringing a halt to all of these abuses of power, call on the newly-elected Board of Directors of Peachtree Village HOA to enter into a binding agreement with the Union to, immediately, make the following, 12 Much-Needed Changes:

The 12 Much-Needed Changes to the Conduct and Policies of Peachtree Village HOA

01) The HOA agrees to transition to self-management, and will no longer hire any HOA management company to act on behalf of the HOA Board. The Board may hire a bonded, part-time clerk to receive HOA dues, keep track of dues payments, issue payments for other, necessary services and provide a complete, detailed monthly report of ALL financial transactions to the Board, the Union, and all Members (homeowners).

02) The HOA agrees to transfer ALL HOA records to a local data storage company which has a secure audit room so ANY member may, at ANY time during normal business hours, inspect ANY record and will never try to obstruct, delay or demand money to access ANY HOA record in accordance with the inspection rights of all members as unequivocally specified in both our original CCRs and Bylaws.

03) The HOA agrees to stop all surveillance of homeowners’ properties not ceded to any of the Common Areas. From here on, all complaints or concerns related to individual homeowners’ property maintenance will be relayed to the City of Plano Neighborhood Services for investigation and City property code compliance.

04) The HOA agrees to suspend the Architectural Control Committee (ACC) until it is removed entirely from the Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions. The HOA and the Union agree to educate all homeowners about the need to get a City of Plano permit for substantial changes or additions to their individual properties, and will coordinate with the City to obtain and publicize up-to-date information about what changes/additions require or don’t require a permit.

05) The HOA agrees to create a committee made up of one Board member and one Union member to serve as a neutral mediator for neighbors who have any non-emergency disputes with each other to help resolve them in a peaceful way.

06) The HOA agrees to use the funds generated by our regular dues payments for the purpose of maintaining or improving our Common Areas (the greenbelt, private (“blue sign”) streets and curbs, sidewalks, retaining walls, and lighting), as well as to desist from any attempt to call for a vote to raise the maximum, $480.00 amount of annual assessments per Affected Lot (dues per year, per home).

07) The HOA agrees to work with the Union on placing non-threatening and clearly-worded signs to politely help residents understand when and where to place bulk trash out for the City of Plano to remove, as well as, non-threatening and clearly-worded signs to politely explain to residents and visitors how they may use the auxiliary, temporary parking spaces.

08) The HOA agrees to work with the Union to make it clear to all residents and visitors where they may park on public (“green sign”) or private (“blue sign”) streets in order to reduce the burgeoning demand on our limited, individual, driveway/garage parking spaces.

09) The HOA agrees to reimburse every homeowner for fines paid, and to waive all assessed fines that have not been paid, as well as, to all homeowners who were pressured to pay for repairs or replacement of any structure on any of the Common Areas, such as retaining walls. The HOA and the Union agree to help negotiate payment plans to reimburse those homeowners who paid more than $1,000. out of their own pockets for repairs that should have been paid for by the HOA’s maintenance fund, which should have been funded by the members’ regular dues (assessments) paid over many past years, as is required by our original CCRs. Further, if there were to ever be any fines assessed against any homeowner for not paying their dues on time, it should only be after a 60 Day Grace period, and NONE of the money should go to the HOA or the HOA management company because doing so only creates a motive to subjectively and/or selectively accuse homeowners of "violations," because they would have a direct profit motive to do so. Instead, any fines should be, anonymously, donated to a local charity.

10) The HOA agrees all future Board of Directors elections be conducted in keeping with all modern, democratic norms, as specified by the following changes:

a) There shall be no more proxy voting, replacing them with secure, absentee, mail-in ballots, for those who don’t vote in person.

b) Elections shall be conducted by independent persons who have no stake in the outcome (so, no more elections conducted by HOA management companies.)

c) There shall be a minimum of 45 days between nomination submissions and election dates.

d) All candidates must participate in at least one debate with all others, at a neutral forum, made available online for live viewing and recorded for public viewing afterwards.

e) Absolutely no HOA funds may be used for political purposes, especially by current Board members seeking re-election.

f) All ballots submitted will be verified against a DIRECT, unaltered copy of homeowners’ names from the Collin County Appraisal District’s records.

11) The HOA agrees to work with the Union to develop and implement a plan to convert our greenbelt to an economical, environmentally-sustainable replacement of the current non-native crabgrass on our Greenbelt, in coordination with the City of Plano’s Environmental Sustainability and Neighborhood Services departments, in order to permanently terminate use of expensive, City/Water District drinking water and prevent further soil erosion as evidenced by the frequent mud flows onto our streets, parking spaces and sidewalks.

12) The HOA agrees to work the Union on a replacement of the original, outdated Declaration of CCRs in order to bring it into conformity with this agreement, current Texas Law, court precedents, and modern democratic conventions.

The List of 12 Much-Needed Changes Has Been Sent to the new Board of Directors of Peachtree Village HOA

Below is a copy of the letter that was sent today by your Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union to all 5 of the Directors of Peachtree Village HOA. It is the hope of the Union and every resident and non-resident homeowner of Peachtree Village who helped us put together this list of vitally needed changes, that this new Board will, finally, come to terms with the many abuses of power and waste of our hard-earned money and work with us, instead of against us, to make Peachtree Village a happy and thriving place for EVERYONE to make a HOME here and, for once and for all, pay no more allegiance to those few who have only sought to divide us according to their personal bigotries and whatever else it is that seems to compel them to control the lives of others!

Having a HOME (Not Just a House)

Is a Human Right!

Perhaps it’s difficult for us to understand how important it is for every human being to have, not only a material shelter of some sort to shield us from the physical elements—cold, heat, rain, snow and so on—but people also need at least one place in all the world where they are sheltered from all the other many threatening elements we encounter so often when we’re out and about, such as, threats against our privacy, against our safety, against our comfort, against our sense of belonging, and against our need to be in charge. As the outside world continues take more and more of these things away, with cameras watching our every move, with smart phones tracking our every purchase and click, and with corporations spending $Billions each year to find more and more effective ways to manipulate our minds and emotions, so we’ll, without even noticing, “choose” their products and services over others, it is now more important than ever that every one of us, whether we are a family of one or many (pets included) have that one place to where we can retreat and truly experience as our emotional and mental sanctuary!

It's for this very important reason the legalization of HOAs is turning out to be one of the biggest mistakes our society has ever made! And the reason is simple—so-called “Homeowners Associations” are specifically designed to rob us of our HOMES, to invade our privacy, to infringe on our comfort, our sense of belonging, our “locus of control, and to deprive us of an emotional and mental sanctuary!

Of course, the HOA Movement got a big lift when an entire FOR PROFIT industry arose right alongside them who, with the $Billions they make every year (in 2023, it’s estimated the HOA Industry hauled in $88,000,000,000.00) devote a large portion of their funds to influence government, social media and hone propaganda rhetoric which they supply to the HOA Boards they either control directly or to assist them in their efforts to displace (if not to actually run them off, to at least displace them in every other way) the people in their communities they cannot stand. In other words, they’ve become very skilled at MONETIZING BIGOTRY!

Though HOAs are maybe the latest iteration of one group of people taking control of others, in order to profit off of them, and “keep them in their place,” dividing and conquering is one of the oldest human strategies of abuse, disenfranchisement and enslavement. Think of how Julius Caesar employed his divide et impera in order to conquer Gaul (modern France), by amplifying the differences between the Gallic tribes, taking advantage of their suspicions, of their prejudices, and of their sense of superiority over others, which ultimately helped him pick them off once tribe at a time!

Likewise, HOAs use the same strategy, by amping up people’s fears about others who, were they permitted to enjoy the same level of home sovereignty as “us,” they would tear the neighborhood down by committing serious neglect and decorating their houses in ways the "Superior Us" deems inappropriate.

Worse, though, the HOA Propaganda Machine has, for many decades, been influencing people to believe our homes are nothing more than an “investment,” and its only value is measured by how much it could be sold for at a later date! Even in communities where there is no HOA, it’s not uncommon for homeowners to think they shouldn’t decorate or remodel their homes the way they would really want to, because “That will probably hurt the house’s resell value!” What then happens? People spend decades of their lives decorating their houses to make them appealing, not to themselves, but to people who don’t even live there!

Right now, the full impact of way HOAs deprive homeowners of their fundamental need to have a place where THEY are in control may take decades to understand. However, there are already some studies out which are, already, explaining the dangers. For example, Dr. Gary Solomon, a psychology professor at the College of Southern Nevada, has identified the adverse affects of associations who take away a homeowner’s vital emotional and mental needs as “HOA Syndrome,” resulting in measurable signs of anxiety, irritation, and worry!

It's for this reason, a good number of the residents, along with non-resident homeowners who make up the Peachtree Village community, have formed the Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union. No longer are we going to allow a small group of people who believe themselves to be superior to all the rest of us to treat us like children, to constantly act toward us in a condescending manner, to take our money and hand it off to FOR PROFIT HOA management corporation, and to spend so much of it on foolish, unsustainable common area crabgrass, all the while failing, miserably, to carry out what should be their primary responsibility—repairing our (non-public) roads which are covered with potholes, replacing rotting retaining walls, and getting the trash (most all of it from careless passersby) and fallen tree limbs picked up off our greenbelt.

We’re not sure if this small group of control-obsessed people will ever come to understand how their behavior is actually exasperating, if not creating in the first place, the very carelessness they claim must be met with draconian threats of fines, because the more people don’t FEEL their principal dwelling is THEIR HOME, their unique emotional and mental and safe and private SANTUARY then, of course, their not going to have the sense of pride and desire to maintain and improve upon it, as would naturally, otherwise take place! We hope, one day, they’ll figure this out, but in the meantime, we are going to use every legal means at our disposal in order to claw back our right, for each and every one of us to have a HOME, not just a house!

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